The blog of Steve Root

Month: September 2021

  • Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 5

    I gave up with the Google Workspace Collaborative Inbox. It had a number of problems for my use case, including: I couldn’t get the custom footer working Replies to the originator go as CC: instead of TO: as the group address is always the only TO: address. Sending an email from the Groups web view,…

  • Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 4

    Now 2FA is working for my 2 users, I can create our first Shared email address. For Google Workspace this is a “Collaborative Inbox” (see the setup instructions here). We’ve not had this in the past. We used to have a shared email address, showroom@rkbb.co.uk that was a regular user email address and then had…

  • Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 3

    Now to set up and enforce 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) for all users in my new domain. First I want to make sure it is active and working for me! In Gmail, clicking the “S” at the top right, which comes from my name Steve, opens a box with an option to “Manage your Google…